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John David Dyche: Grimes makes her case for U.S. Senate run
If Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, decides to run against incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell for the U. S. Senate next year, her announcement might go something like this ... if she is completely candid. The scene: a...Tags: Lawyers, Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Ronald Reagan
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Ky. House bill provides funds for pension
State representativeAt midnight last Tuesday, the 2013 General Assembly came to an end. All the negotiations, all the hand-wringing over what bills would or would not clear the 2013 Kentucky General Assembly ended. After at least 25 hours of talks over two days and earlier...Tags: Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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City faces challenge of finding ongoing revenue
You may be aware that Kentucky law requires cities to operate in the black. We must have a budget, and we must balance that budget year in and year out. It’s a challenging but good law. In fact, most people I talk with say they wish all levels of...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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GUEST COLUMN: Counties should approve special district activities
Guest ColumnistI moved to Kentucky in 2008 when the economy crashed. Our family decided it was time for us to agree to, and live by, a budget in order to avoid our own fiscal cliff. My husband recommended each of us put our receipts in a jar. At the end of the month,...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Elections, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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What is the 'fiscal cliff'?
I have been wondering about this fiscal cliff deal. Perhaps an economist who might read this could explain it better. I was wondering, first off, what is the fiscal cliff? I looked it up online and got a simple definition of what it is. What I found...Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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House gives final passage to fiscal cliff bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle that...Tags: U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Tea Party Movement, Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate
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Democratic society dying in the U.S.
The French philosopher Alexis de Toqueville (1805-1859) had many interesting things to say about democracy. One of the most noteworthy being: “The American people will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the people with the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Planned Parenthood, Mammogram, Social Issues
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More concerned with poverty than 'cliff'
I’m so sick of hearing Republicans and Democrats in Congress argue about taxes and this “fiscal cliff” garbage. I’m fed up to the gills with a divided government, where absolutely nothing gets done for the people. No one talks...Tags: U.S. Congress, Social Issues, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Poverty
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Danville and Boyle schools worry about fiscal cliff
You have probably heard a great deal about the looming fiscal cliff facing our nation, but we want to bring the debate closer to home by sharing what that cliff means for our local schools and the future of the children and youth of our community. These...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Congress should cut its own perks
As members of Congress are hurrying up and waiting to figure out how to deal with the upcoming “fiscal cliff,” I find it interesting that the body that complains about too many people being on the dole or lazy Americans doing nothing to lift...Tags: U.S. Congress, 401K, Politics
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...
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GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes,...
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